Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to three uniquely connected radio drama series, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and The Challenge of the Yukon. All were produced and broadcast by the same radio station from the 1930s-1950s, using a handful of voice actors and announcers that cycled between programs. The larger than life characters, the adventurous […]
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Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to William Conrad’s iconic radio voice which was heard in thousands of supporting roles and literally defined two radio drama series, Escape and Gunsmoke. We sample from “The Abominable Snowman” episode of Escape (September 13, 1953) and the “Dirty Hands” episode of Gunsmoke (April 2, 1955). Both showcase Conrad’s million dollar
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Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to The Columbia Workshop, perhaps the most important American anthology radio program and its mission to explore and present new forms of radio storytelling. The Willamette Radio Workshop performs Archibald MacLeish’s “The Fall of the City” which follows the collapse of a city under an unnamed dictator and the ambiguous relationship
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Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to Women’s History Month, women in radio, and specifically Lucille Fletcher, a superb female radio storyteller, writer of “The Hitch-Hiker” and “Sorry, Wrong Number.” Our re-imagined adaptation of both dramas presented by The Voices proves the appeal and power of radio storytelling to engage listeners’ imaginations. LOTS more information, behind the
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Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to Black History Month and Destination Freedom (1948-1950), a radio series that dramatized the democratic traditions and cultural contributions of Black Americans, and, in the process, provided foothold for the later civil and human rights movements. For this episode, “Destination Freedom Tribute,” we sample from original episodes of Destination Freedom to
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Re-Imagined Radio celebrates the Christmas holidays with selections from Christmas episodes of radio programs like Suspense, Rocky Fortune, The Damon Runyon Theatre, The Jack Benny Program, Bing Crosby and The Kraft Music Hall, Vic and Sade, and the 2020 recorded performance of “A Radio Christmas Carol” by Metropolitan Performing Arts. Since 2013 Re-Imagined Radio has
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Re-Imagined Radio pays tribute to the popular female detective series Candy Matson (1949-1951), a weekly radio drama series noted for its strong female protagonist. Candy Matson was an intelligent, no nonsense detective. She was driven, relentless, and disarming. Rather than a seedy office, she ran her business from a Telegraph Hill penthouse in San Francisco,
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This year, 2021, is the 83rd anniversary of “The War of the Worlds.” First broadcast October 30, 1938 by Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre on the Air, “The War of the Worlds” is considered the most famous radio broadcast ever. How better to celebrate than with a contempoary adaptation of this classic radio drama?
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Re-Imagined Radio reprises a 2018 live recorded performance by Metropolitan Performing Arts actors and other community volunteers at Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver, Washington. All new sound effects and ambiences designed to send delightful shivers up your spine. Dracula, the legendary novel by Bram Stoker, first published in 1897, is considered one of the greatest
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